UCLU

Registered charity 1142404 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as UCL UNION, UCL STUDENTS' UNION, UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON UNION

Provides UCL students with advice on immigration,housing,finance,employment,academic appeals etc. Provides representation between Students,UCL and other bodies.Co-ordinates Student Academic Representatives to encourage student feedback/course development.Promotes student personal development by the provision of social,cultural,volunteering, sporting/recreational activities,discussion/debate fora

Objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE UNION ARE THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION OF STUDENTS AT UCL FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT BY:4.1 PROMOTING THE INTERESTS AND WELFARE OF STUDENTS AT UCL DURING THEIR COURSE OF STUDY AND REPRESENTING, SUPPORTING AND ADVISING STUDENTS;4.2 BEING THE RECOGNISED REPRESENTATIVE CHANNEL BETWEEN STUDENTS AND UCL AND ANY OTHER EXTERNAL BODIES; AND4.3 PROVIDING SOCIAL, CULTURAL, SPORTING AND RECREATIONAL ACTIVITIES AND FORUMS FORDISCUSSIONS AND DEBATE FOR THE PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT OF ITS STUDENTS.

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

Causes: Education/training · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Amateur Sport · Recreation · Other Charitable Purposes · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity maintained strong operational financial performance with a net surplus from operations of £133k and total unrestricted reserves of £7,761k. The trustees confirm sufficient resources to meet obligations, noting that the charity is heavily dependent on annual grant funding from UCL but has confirmed future funding levels for the coming year.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Buzzacott Audit LLP. Discloses 3 of 6 completeness components.

Policies the charity declares

In its annual return the charity told the Commission that it has the policies listed below. This is self-declared: it is not verified by the Commission or by this site, and it is not evidence of how a policy works in practice.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 07635628

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — University College London Students Union (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Rawleka — Equity & Inclusion Officer (source)
• Audrey — Activities & Engagement Officer (source)
• Sarah — Education Officer (source)
• Anam — Postgraduate Officer (source)
• Vivian — Welfare & Community Officer (source)

Listed on the charity’s own website when we last crawled it; roles may have changed. Pay-band disclosures above are anonymous statutory disclosures and are not attributed to any named individual.

Company officers (Companies House)

Current officers of the charity’s own company per the Companies House register, cross-checked against the Charity Commission trustee list by name. A director not on the trustee list is usually a timing or naming difference between the two registers — check both records before drawing conclusions.

• MALIK, Muhammad Abdullah — director, appointed 16/07/2026on trustee list
• CHAMBERS, Christian — director, appointed 16/07/2026on trustee list
• LAU, Audrey — director, appointed 16/07/2026on trustee list
• LI, Yiting — director, appointed 16/07/2026on trustee list
• FOYLE, Clare — director, appointed 05/03/2026on trustee list
• CLEARY, Adam Hector — director, appointed 13/11/2025on trustee list
• AHMAD, Rohan — director, appointed 01/11/2025on trustee list
• WILSON, Rawleka — director, appointed 16/07/2025on trustee list
• JILANI, Sarah — director, appointed 16/07/2025on trustee list
• CHOUDHARY, Anam Eijaz Ahmed — director, appointed 16/07/2025on trustee list
• GABELA, Catherine — director, appointed 01/07/2025on trustee list
• TO, Wing Hong Simon — secretary, appointed 01/02/2020

Official officers record.

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): instagram

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/07/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~5.3 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.6 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (58% of income) — components as reported reconcile to the return’s total income; not from the accounts narrative.

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (3.8%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (22/06/2016) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Adam Hector Cleary
• Anam Eijaz Ahmed Choudhary
• Audrey Lau · trustee of 1 other charity
• Beth Louisa Beasant
• Catherine Gabela
• Christian Kumar Chambers
• Clare Foyle
• Muhammad Abdullah Malik
• Rawleka Wilson
• Rohan Ahmad
• Sarah Jilani
• Yiting Li

Trustee list from the Charity Commission register (current, not historical).

Operates in: Camden · City Of London · Islington

Income and spending

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